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Old 02-08-2009, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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I believe Obama will try to follow up this disaster with even more. I think he's completely ignorant of how much a trillion dollars is, he has no clue as to how it's going to be repaid. Obama himself believes that debt is not the problem because he just added a trillion more to it.

Obama is like the idiot that is living very high on the hog, buying every new electronic item that comes out, taking very expensive vacations and using one credit card to pay another and when he needs more credit (debt) he simply applies for another.

I believe Obama has no clue on what produces wealth and he believes that he as the president has access to an unlimited supply of trillions of dollars to spend on problems as he pleases.
Heck. If all that is true, we just re-elected George W. Bush.

Deficits don't matter, anyhow. Ronnie said so, himself.

And they really don't - at least, not to Ronnie any more.
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Old 02-10-2009, 03:59 AM
 
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As an educator, I agree, teachers are grossly underpaid.
The education dollar amounts in this package are pay back to the NEA and AFT, nothing more.
In Illinois, Blagojevich was diverting our TRS (Teacher's Retirement System) funds to other accounts with shortfalls for years and the Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers both endorsed him, with full knowledge. Education unions are strange beasts and a powerful lobbyists - in bed with the Democrats.
I thought that only the governor of Texas saw our TRS funds as his personal bank account to use for pet projects. It is comforting and depressing to know that we are not the only ones cheated by our governor.
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